- Source: 1962 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1962.
Major publications
= Books
=James Aldridge – A Captive in the Land
Thea Astley – The Well Dressed Explorer
Martin Boyd – When Blackbirds Sing
Nancy Cato – But Still the Stream
Jon Cleary – The Country of Marriage
Kenneth Cook – Chain of Darkness
Dymphna Cusack – Picnic Races
Catherine Gaskin – I Know My Love
George Johnston – The Far Road
Elizabeth Kata – Someone Will Conquer Them
John Naish – The Cruel Field
John O'Grady – Gone Fishin'
Nancy Phelan – The River and the Brook
E. V. Timms – The Big Country
George Turner – The Cupboard Under the Stairs
Arthur Upfield – The Will of the Tribe
= Short stories
=Thea Astley – "The Scenery Never Changes"
Peter Cowan – "The Island"
John Morrison – Twenty-Three : Stories
Hal Porter
A Bachelor's Children : Short Stories
"A Double Because it's Snowing"
"First Love"
"Francis Silver"
Patrick White
"Be Kind to Titina"
"The Letters"
"Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight"
Amy Witting – "The Weight of a Man"
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Nan Chauncy – Half a World Away
John Gunn – City in Danger
Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat
The Road Under the Sea
Joan Phipson
The Boundary Riders
The Family Conspiracy
Ivan Southall – Hills End
P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins from A to Z
Joan Woodberry – Rafferty Makes a Landfall
Judith Wright – Range the Mountains High
Patricia Wrightson – The Feather Star
= Poetry
=David Campbell – Poems
Bruce Dawe – No Fixed Address : Poems
Geoffrey Dutton – Flowers and Fury : Poems
R. D. Fitzgerald – Southmost Twelve
Rodney Hall – Penniless Till Doomsday
Gwen Harwood – "The Wine is Drunk"
Oodgeroo Noonuccal – "Colour Bar"
Roland Robsinson – Deep Well
Douglas Stewart – Rutherford and Other Poems
Randolph Stow – Outrider : Poems, 1956-1962
Francis Webb
"Harry"
"Pneumo-Encephalograph"
Judith Wright – Birds : Poems
= Biography
=Joan Lindsay – Time Without Clocks
Douglas Lockwood – I, the Aboriginal
Alan Marshall – This is the Grass
= Non-fiction
=Manning Clark – The History of Australia (Vol. 1)
F. J. Thwaites – Destination Spain (travel book)
= Drama
=Morris West – Daughter of Silence
Patrick White – The Season at Sarsaparilla
Awards and honours
= Literary
== Children and Young Adult
== Poetry
=Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1962 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
17 April — Joanna Murray-Smith, playwright
Unknown date
Matthew Condon, novelist
Alison Croggon, novelist
Luke Davies, novelist
Craig Sherborne, poet and playwright
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1962 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
4 February — Nita Kibble, librarian (born 1879)
8 March – Jean Devanny, novelist (born 1894)
9 September – H. M. Green, poet and critic (born 1881)
3 December – Mary Gilmore, poet (born 1865)
Unknown date
Margaret Fane, novelist and poet (born 1887)
See also
1962 in Australia
1962 in literature
1962 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
References
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